Table 2.
Treatment outcome of both New and Re-treatment patients according to choice of treatment delivery
| Treatment Outcome | |||||
| Patient Category | TB treatment delivery option |
Successful (n) |
Unsuccessful (n) |
% Successful | p† |
| New patients | Community-based | 164 | 64 | 72 | |
| Clinic-based | 189 | 88 | 68 | 0.367 | |
| Self-administered | 66 | 27 | 71 | 0.862 | |
| Re-treatment patients |
Community-based | 19 | 6 | 76 | |
| Clinic-based | 42 | 23 | 65 | 0.301 | |
| Self-administered | 4 | 27 | 13 | <0.001* | |
†
Chi-Square test comparing community-based treatment supervision to other options
*
Statistically significant at the 0.05 level